Sentences with phrase «about individual studies»

But if we're having a debate about an individual study, we're having the wrong debate.

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In one example, SAS studied transactions of customers and text transcripts from call centres of a financial services provider, then looked at what individuals said about the firm through social media.

As a 2006 study in the American Sociological Review found, the number of close confidantes a typical individual has shrank by a third between 1985 and 2006, to about two from three.

Since young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be... «unconcerned with social justice», it's a shame that more evangelical churches don't know about the Just Faith program, which provides «opportunities for individuals to study and be formed by the justice tradition articulated by the Scriptures, the Church's historical witness, theological inquiry and Church social teaching» (from jusfaith.org/programs).

The study of history is arid and incomplete unless it is understood as a work about (and by) individual human beings — and, moreover, a story whose substance and manner of telling are matters of moral significance.

According to the study, giving has been tumbling for the past four years, all the way down to an average about about 2.1 % of an individual church member's income.

I won't argue with you about «religion» if by that you mean the organization of groups of individuals who share a common faith and manner of worship and study about that faith.

For Catholics, seminaries are fundamentally about spiritual formation and discernment, and the role of priest for which young men study inextricably melds individual spiritual direction with coursework and preparation for service to the parish, community, and broader world.

In addition, historical study keeps attention focused on important questions about our own history, including that of the individual reader.

For the person who spends six or seven years (^ 1) in weekly Bible study, learning about Christ, before commiting to Christ, then Jeremy is also spot on, becuase the individual will have a good foundation upon which to start learning what the Bible teaches.

The study also included an effort to determine how much agreement exists between individual members» views and the official theological positions of the church, first by interviewing theologians to determine what the official positions were, then by surveying pastors to see if these positions were taught, and finally by surveying members about their own beliefs.

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The report, «Carrageenan: New Studies Reinforce Link to Inflammation, Cancer, and Diabetes,» is the result of a three - year investigation on the part of the Cornucopia Institute and contains information gleaned from 1,337 questionnaire responses from individuals about their own health.

The video case book follows a study in which Dr Emma Banister and Dr Ben Kerrane identified that one of the key barriers individuals face when considering SPL is the lack of accessible, credible and accurate information about the scheme.

But I also find it useful, every once in a while, to think about the individual people who conducted these studies: the doctors or psychologists or social workers who went in to an orphanage in Russia or an impoverished neighborhood in Jamaica or a high school in Chicago or a living room in Queens and said, in essence, I want to help.

At the same time that she was ingesting all this psychological research about motivation, Farrington was also studying the related sociological literature, which was concerned with how institutional structures affect individual behavior and, specifically, how certain educational structures — like school funding mechanisms, teacher contracts, or patterns of segregation — might incline students toward success or failure.

Because studies show that one - off concussion education isn't enough to change concussion symptom reporting behavior, Step Three in the SmartTeams Play SafeTM #TeamUp4 ConcussionSafetyTM game plan calls for coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors (and, at the youth and high school level, parents) to attend a mandatoryconcussion safety meeting before every sports season to learn in detail about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting, not just in minimizing the risks concussions pose to an athlete's short - and long - term health, but in increasing the chances for individual and team success.

With absolutely no indication about the quality of the studies (and methods used) in each individual study, readers have no way of assessing the quality of the larger systematic review.

The studies of Dweck, Duckworth, and others support conservative claims that individual character should be an important part of policy discussions about poverty.

If we only studied the average — in other words, if we overlooked individual differences — we would miss out on key information about child development.

The participants of the study were given an intelligence quotient test at the median age of 30 years old, as well as providing individual information about their educational achievements and income levels.

There are about a million or more good things parents can do to help their children grow up to be stellar individuals, but study after study has found there are some simple, doable things parents can focus on to give their children the best chance at being successful and happy throughout their lives.

Ethics dictate that all healthcare providers should respect the autonomy of individuals to make their own informed decisions, and this study provides further information about the risks and benefits of planned home birth so that families can make those decisions with the information available.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Information about the project was also given to health visitor managers and permission granted to contact individual health visitors with study families on their caseloads.

«No, I really think in studying instant runoff that this isn't about an individual candidate... I think the reality is it really is about voter participation.»

But Jones, like Hyman, cautioned about trying to draw conclusions about individual behavior based on studies of groups.

Researchers led by Grace Aldrovandi, MD, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, studied 11 biomarkers associated with inflammation, bone loss and / or bone formation in about 450 individuals — assessed by sex and HIV status — to try to determine causes of this differential bone loss.

Meanwhile, other researchers are studying serum to garner clues about links between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and DNA methylation among individuals who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, gleaning information from samples on 150 service members with mild to severe TBI, along with 50 control subjects.

The study found that in the 18th and 19th centuries, about four to 18 per cent of the variation between individuals in lifespan, family size and ages at first and last birth was influenced by genes, while the rest of the variation was driven by differences in various aspects of their environment.

Further molecular study of the remains could identify details about the Spirit Cave individuals — from the foods they consumed to the diseases that afflicted them.

Initially about one third of the 1,661 study participants received placebo, however the placebo group also received the vaccine 30 months into the study so those individuals were followed a shorter period of time, the researchers note.

During a June news conference, shortly before the study was published in Nature, Hublin noted it's unlikely the Jebel Irhoud individuals, the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils by about 100,000 years, are our direct ancestors.

Pooling massive amounts of data allows patterns and trends to emerge that aren't apparent in small, individual studies, and the applications are virtually infinite — think Moneyball, the 2003 best - selling book about how the perennially cash - strapped Oakland A's used analytics and baseball stats to scout overlooked talent.

But that may be about to change, thanks to a new type of climate study that can connect individual weather events with the impact of human - made greenhouse gas emissions.

«Other researchers were skeptical about whether it is possible to make an accurate match between public records and individuals taking part in a life - long study, but New Zealand's national databases are very reliable and Dunedin Study members have given us great information for matching over the years,» said Terrie Moffitt, the Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor in Duke's departments of psychology & neuroscience and psychiatry & behavioral sciestudy, but New Zealand's national databases are very reliable and Dunedin Study members have given us great information for matching over the years,» said Terrie Moffitt, the Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor in Duke's departments of psychology & neuroscience and psychiatry & behavioral scieStudy members have given us great information for matching over the years,» said Terrie Moffitt, the Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor in Duke's departments of psychology & neuroscience and psychiatry & behavioral sciences.

Buchholz: Well, usually in animal behavior studies we don't make any assumptions about the individual animal thought processes per se.

Researchers are using the sea hare model to learn about individual cells function, discover the chemical pathways controlling various brain activities and to study how memories are processed and stored.

We mentally invent different «layers» to organize our actions and then think about the higher levels rather than individual steps, according to a Neuron study from members of Google DeepMind and the University of Oxford publishing May 18.

«We hope this study will be useful for health providers who counsel individuals and families about HPV vaccination.»

The Nature study also adds to what is known about how genes are transferred from one species to another when individuals from two closely related species mate.

Kassell estimates that this is a million - word task, but the end result will allow researchers to follow individual patients for decades or to study conditions, historical dates, and other variables to learn about trends.

The trio used three small studies to answer several questions about supertasters — individuals whose increased amount of taste bud papillae leave them prone to disliking bitter foods while preferring sweet ones — and find out more about their brand identification ability, brand loyalty and if their abilities dissipate with learning.

Together the four loci predict the risk of an individual developing Fuchs dystrophy with an accuracy of about 78 percent, said one of the study's lead authors, Sudha K Iyengar, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland.

Lawyers rarely heed scientists» cautions «that the neurobiological evidence at issue is weak, particularly for making claims about individuals rather than studying between - group differences,» they add.

Years of studies have determined that each individual constantly senses its environment and continuously sends out chemical signals to communicate with its neighbors about the choices it is making.

«The data from our study gives us a baseline about normal individuals that we never had before,» Dr. Segre said.

Despite these findings, little is known about the risk of nonceliac autoimmune disease in these individuals,» said lead study author Louise Emilsson, MD, PhD, from Oslo University and Primary care research unit, Värmlands Nysäter.

Despite the wide availability of effective treatments for depression and a growing effort nationwide to detect and begin treating depression during primary care visits, only about one - third of individuals newly diagnosed with depression start treatment, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published today in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

«Advancing technology has revealed more and more of the Universe to us over the past few decades, and our study shows individual objects that account for about 96 percent of the background radio emission coming from the distant Universe,» Condon said.