Sentences with phrase «account for differences in»

As expected, the responsiveness of the depressed mothers was generally poorer than that of the well controls; and when the nature of this early maternal interactive behaviour was considered, it was found to account for the differences in the cognitive outcome at 9 and 18 months of the depressed and well mothers» infants.6 14 The interactive style associated with the occurrence of depression, therefore, rather than exposure to depressive symptoms per se, carries the major explanatory force.

To account for differences in the age structure, comparisons between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people are presented by age group or by using age standardised rates as appropriate.

Stronger associations with parenting may be found in future studies that are able to account for differences in the type or severity of health problems and injuries, or that examine their accumulation over a longer period.

Once we also account for differences in a raft of other factors — parenting behavior, maternal education, race, and maternal age — the gap shrinks further to around a 4.5 percentile difference.

Participants were block randomized to account for differences in time for when consent forms were received.

This is supported by Szatmari's work in Canada, which showed that family dysfunction and, for boys, service needs disappeared as significant variables associated with ADHD when comorbidity for other disorders were factored in, of which by the far the most common was CD.31 Unsurprisingly, abused children with ADHD have poorer outcomes in adulthood, but that could have several alternative explanations as there are many confounders that could account for these differences in outcome.

Various states require insurance agencies to set a base rate (the average rate of car insurance in the respective state prior to any discounts or adjustments, including processing fees), but many times this information isn't given to the public, and it doesn't account for differences in driving records from person to person.

When roads are wet, slippery, icy, or snow - covered, the responsible driver will slow down to account for differences in the car's handling.

In reality, models use multiple levels to account for the differences in gas constituents at various heights.

Our method has two components: 1) Break time series into independent fragments at times when there is evidence of abrupt discontinuities, and 2) Adjust the weights within the fitting equations to account for differences in reliability.

To account for differences in the number of seasons during which individuals were monitored, mean seasonal home - range sizes were calculated for the 13 cats that were tracked for 2 dry or 2 wet seasons.

Another evident flaw in the PE10 ratio, other than fuzzy inflation numbers, is the failure of our earnings numbers to account for differences in capital reinvestment rates.

To account for differences in cost of living, mean salary data was normalized using the most recent average price data of white bread from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (October 2014, http://www.bls.gov/data/).

This model is not adjusted to account for the differences in the interest rate sensitivities of long - term treasuries and corporate bonds (refer to the Hallerbach and Houweling, and Asvanunt and Richardson papers listed below).

In some cases, I'm going to first present absolute (or «raw») numbers — then, I will standardize these numbers by converting them to per - share or year - over-year figures to account for the differences in sizes between the companies.

Because construction depends so largely on season, the CMHC adjusts the rates to account for the differences in each month, depending on season.

Amazon said that it developed a way to normalize page counts across devices and genres to account for differences in font size, line spacing and more.

There are several factors that could be at play to account for the differences in performance.

These changes in demography could account for differences in the average performance of Arkansas fourth - graders in 2011 and 2013.

Indeed, research on this has revealed that failures to account for differences in resources and student demographics creates strong disincentives for quality teachers and leaders to work in disadvantaged schools.

These comparisons don't account for differences in demographics among states nor changes in demographics over time.

Forty - seven percent of voters agreed with the statement that standardized testing hurts education in California by pressuring teachers to teach to the test and fails to account for differences in cultural and economic backgrounds and learning style

«One of the basic things you always have to do when writing about education results is to account for differences in the populations,» said Fredrik deBoer, Academic Assessment Manager Brooklyn College, in a phone interview.

does not account for differences in school performance beyond test scores and graduation rates.»

That is, assessing programs with value - added measures is easier than it is with test scores alone because the value - added measures account for differences in the students that teachers teach.

Third, the current formula does not adequately account for differences in education costs across districts or across states, as they use current state expenditures to measure costs.

Be sure to account for differences in cultural bias, language barriers, and other differentiating factors in order to meet the needs of all students.

Do differences among states help to account for differences in the way in which district administrators interpret state leadership for improvement and their own responsibilities?

Beginning with James Coleman's research in the 1960s, comparisons of public and private schools have suffered under a powerful critique: that such comparisons can never fully account for differences in the types of students who attend public and private schools.

The regression analyses used to generate fitted values are weighted by the inverse of each observation's estimated variance to account for differences in the number of respondents from each state; unweighted regressions yield substantively similar results.

These results, however, still do not account for differences in the backgrounds and characteristics of students who attend these types of schools that might in turn affect whether they engage in community service.

Specifically, I examine whether the results change when I adjust my results to account for differences in student characteristics, including prior (age 7) test scores; gender; eligibility for free lunch; special education needs; month of birth; whether first language is English; ethnic background; and census information on the home neighborhood deprivation index.

What could account for the differences in the estimated effects of SAT performance and the high - school dropout rates?

The problem I have with studies that are based on differences between macronutrients alone is that they are unable to account for the differences in the nutrient value of the foods eaten and can be manipulated to show anything the researcher wants them to show.

However, neither macronutrient - specific differences in the availability of food energy nor changes in energy output could explain these differences in weight loss.If a calorie is a calorie, then what other factors could account for the differences in weight loss between the two diets?

Results for VO2 measurements are generally displayed in L • min - 1 (i.e. litres per minute, representing the volume of oxygen consumed by your entire body each minute) or, to account for differences in total body mass, in mL • kg - 1 • min - 1 (i.e. millilitres per kilogram per minute, representing the volume of oxygen consumed each minute per kilogram of your body mass).

Nutrition is a highly individual issue and you must make adjustments to your diet to account for the differences in your metabolism and your body type.

There are some disparities between the studies, which could account for the differences in diet and exercise approach.

In addition, to address the possibility that physicians» age may not fully account for the differences in clinical experience between female and male physicians, we further adjusted for physicians» years in practice as measured by years since completion of residency.

CFS is a complex disease with various clinical subtypes proposed which could also account for differences in the results obtained in each study [11, 16 — 18].

Environment can have a strong influence on genes in the womb and could account for differences in identical twins, according...

Recent genomic advances are contributing to our understanding of the emergence and spread of a multidrug - resistant cholera strain [78], for example, and helping to identify variants that might account for differences in host susceptibility to other waterborne infections such as schistosomiasis [79], [80].

It may, for example, partly account for the differences in brain structure and behavior between identical twins, and could even affect thought processes by subtly influencing the changes in nerve cell connections that occur with experience.

Nevertheless, the researchers were able to show that the Messel forest web is likely comparable in structure to modern webs, by using models to account for differences in structure that would result from the many more taxa and interactions in the Messel data.

However, Rubin and his colleagues knew that sex hormones could not account for the differences in brain tumor risk.

The study, conducted jointly by researchers at Harvard and UT Southwestern Medical Center, is the first to look at state - level trends in child fatalities involving motor vehicle crashes, and to account for differences in geography and state laws and regulations.

And when the calls are adjusted to account for differences in body size and temperature, a whale sounds a lot like a frog [Adjusted whale song].

However, these standards don't account for differences in size (the average person is now taller and heavier), body composition (fat versus lean), age (older people have slower metabolisms), activity levels and gender: Women radiate as much as 35 percent less energy than the standard man.

You could not see exactly what kinds of changes were taking place to account for the differences in forms.

Using a United Kingdom database, they surveyed general practitioners about BSA affected by psoriasis and looked at data on 8,124 adults with psoriasis and 76,599 adults without psoriasis over the course of four years, and they adjusted the samples to account for any differences in age, sex, and body mass index and other diabetes risk factors.