Sentences with phrase «accounting for differences in»

In another study, McConnell et al. (2006) found interactions between self - complexity and three of the Big Five major personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness) in accounting for differences in well - being.

After accounting for differences in these early marital conditions, having a child before marriage was significant in predicting the rates of change over time for husbands.

This result held even after accounting for differences in income and health.

After accounting for differences in parental and child characteristics, children of black immigrants had significantly higher odds of being ready for school than children of Latina immigrants or black natives.

NERA Economic Consulting (2009) Accounting for Differences in the Timing of Emissions in Calculating Carbon Intensity for the California Low Carbon Fuels Standard (April 2009)

Players will have to defend their crystal supply from enemies by placing various units in strategic positions, accounting for the differences in map layout, unit abilities, and enemy strengths.

The lender's advantage over these large banks was apparent even after accounting for their differences in loan volume.

Term and credit risk based 2 - factor model where the term risk premium is calculated as the difference between long - term treasuries and treasury bills and the credit risk premium is calculated from the long - term corporates and long - term treasuries while accounting 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).

Accounting for differences in states» costs of living, California would have needed to spend an additional $ 13.5 billion in 2015 - 16 to equal spending per K - 12 student in the nation as a whole, an increase of 19.1 %.

The report analyzes challenges plaguing the study of curriula, including variations in how curriculum is defined, accounting for differences in district versus teacher - selected curriculum, and the lack of clear standards used by researchers to evaluate the fidelity of curriculum implementation.

The report cites the well - established principle that teaching quality is the most powerful school - based factor in student learning — one that outweighs students» social and economic background in accounting for differences in student learning.

Large differences in funding between states remain even after accounting for differences in the cost of living between states.

After accounting for differences in how much families earn, both districts» PTA revenues remained steady during this time period, with per - pupil PTA revenues equal to 0.06 percent of the income of the median household with children.

Yet that seems to be only part of the story: Dr. Jerrim said he was surprised to discover a considerable gap in access to selective colleges and universities even after accounting for differences in academic performance as measured by grades or standardized tests.

PISA results show that, even after accounting for differences in performance and socio - economic status, girls who perceive that their parents encourage them to be confident in their abilities were 21 % less likely to report that they feel tense when they study, on average across OECD countries.

PISA results show that when students discuss money matters with their parents, they have significantly higher financial literacy skills, even after accounting for differences in socio - economic background and their performance in other subjects.

Without accounting for any differences in students» socioeconomic status, the Spanish language and mathematics test scores of students who attend network schools are considerably higher than the scores of those attending stand - alone schools.

Finally, in Kenya, where the raw test scores showed students in private and public schools performing at similar levels, the fact that private schools served a far more disadvantaged population resulted in a gap of 0.1 standard deviations in English and 0.2 standard deviations in math (after accounting for differences in student characteristics).

PISA results show that, even after accounting for differences in performance and socio - economic status, girls who perceive that their parents encourage them to be confident in their abilities were 21 per cent less likely to report that they feel tense when they study, on average across OECD countries.

In Hyderabad, students attending recognized and unrecognized private schools outperformed their peers in government schools by a full standard deviation in both English and math (after accounting for differences in their observable characteristics).

After accounting for differences in age, pre-pregnancy body size, and other risk factors, the researchers estimated that women who exclusively breastfed or mostly breastfed were about half as likely to develop type 2 diabetes as those who didn't breastfeed.

Further analyses show that graft failure and mortality rates remained higher among minority groups compared to white children after accounting for differences in demographic, clinical, and socioeconomic factors.

We've known that they couldn't all be perfectly round, but this study demonstrates you can use these derived values and improve predictions for more accurate models by accounting for differences in properties at different sizes and types of particulate matter.»

Jha said the researchers sought to control for a variety of factors, including risk adjusting for the demographics of patients and accounting for differences in the size and types of hospitals where the physicians worked.

Over a 30 - day period, seniors were 54 percent more likely to be readmitted to the hospital compared to patients younger than 65 years, the study reports, after accounting for differences in other medical problems.

After accounting for differences in risk, demographic and trading characteristics, self - directed investors outperform advised investors by a small margin.

These responses don't account for differences in the cost of living across the country.

Online nutritional calculators can vary wildly, so it's possible that could account for differences in calories, too.

Hi, Connie, If you made any substitutions, that would account for the difference in batter consistency.

2 shelf space reported in our previous analysis of Australian supermarkets [43] will differ to the results presented here as the current analysis accounts for differences in store size between countries.

Writing it down makes me realized how different my recipe is from your original, so I am certain that those changes largely accounted for the differences in cook time and texture.

As we have suggested previously, 3,39 use of routine data to evaluate the effectiveness of local or national policy changes over time, or between areas, with respect to breastfeeding rates needs to account for differences in ethnic composition and socioeconomic status.

In a case - control study, researchers identify a group of cases (here, the babies who died of SIDS) and compare them to a control group of babies / families with similar characteristics to find out what could account for differences in outcomes (one group died from SIDS; one did not).

The researchers accounted for differences in age, sex, parental education status and race.

As for the disparity in skull features, a number of factors, including diet and random genetic drift, could account for differences in appearance between modern Native Americans and Kennewick Man.

After adjusting their findings to account for differences in race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty level, education and urban density of the children's neighborhoods, Keet and her team found that for each microgram / cubic meter increase in coarse particulate matter, asthma diagnosis increased by 0.6 percent, emergency room visits for asthma by 1.7 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 2.3 percent.

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.

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

To account for this difference in their analysis, the researchers performed statistical adjustments and also assessed outcomes for separate age groups, divided into five - year intervals.

How do you account for the difference in the nature of warfare and the technologies used?

The failure of individuals with lower intelligence to find and follow an optimal strategy and appropriately estimate the future consequences of their actions accounted for the difference in outcomes.

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.

The parameters are dramatically different — that likely accounts for the difference in results,» Riley says.

«Depending on how you ask the question, it turns out that the rate of appendicitis and appendectomy in the first week after a colonoscopy was at least fourfold higher compared to these patients» next 51 weeks,» Basson added, noting that the research accounted for differences in the coding of procedures and other discrepancies in the administrative data.

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].

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.

The differences in nutrient availability (e.g., oil, sweat) on each skin site accounts for the differences in activity levels.

While enrollment criteria varies from state to state, the variation alone has not accounted for the differences in enrollment rates, MacDonald said.

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

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.