Sentences with phrase «also studied the population»

They also studied the population of the county in the six years before the program began, to compare it with the first six years of the program.

Not exact matches

«We also included population, income and poverty data from the U.S. Census Bureau, unemployment rates from various sources, median home listing prices from Zillow, and median monthly rent costs from Trulia,» the study says.

Separate studies of millionaire populations from Spectrem Group and Capgemini also show that the population of millionaires hit an all - time record in 2012.

In the chart above, courtesy of a March report from theOxford Institute for Energy Studies, you can see that the number of vehicles driving on Indian roads doubled between 2007 and 2014, thanks not only to an exploding population but also the rise of India's «spending class,» as Gianni calls it.

This study also informed us that Asian Americans are wealthier and more highly educated than the U.S. population as a whole, and more likely to identify with the Democratic Party.

With all due respect, if you'd read the actual study, you would see that this was not a whole genome sequence comparison; rather it was a comparison of mitochondrial 12S rDNA and 16S rDNA sequences for the purposes of confirming the species relationship between the Pod Mrcaru lizards (P. sicula), the source population from Pod Kopiste (also P. sicula), and the original indigenous population on Pod Mrcaru (P. mellisellensis).

Such studies, however, have not yet been produced.19 There is also, within liberation theology, a lack of more profound theological analyses of the culture of Brazilian populations, both black and indigenous.

Election returns and public - opinion studies indicate discontent with some serious imperfections in recent liberal political policies and programs; studies also show that the general population does not want to give up the values of such programs and still wants additional selected government services.

«This study represents a major milestone for the UC - II ® brand, and it validates our efforts to develop new paradigms for joint health products for the aging population, while also addressing the needs of an expanding group of younger, active, health - conscious consumers,» said Dr. James Lugo, Chief Scientific Officer of the Consumer Health & Nutrition Business Unit of Lonza.

The percentage of women with a non-Dutch background was also small in our study population: 3.1 % in total, as compared with 25.3 % of all nulliparous women in the Netherlands in 2012 [19].

Our study illustrates that a randomized intervention trial with good socioeconomic information can help assess interventions designed to improve population health not only by examining the intervention effects on primary outcomes but also by evaluating the intervention's impact on socioeconomic inequalities.

Research in the United States, Canada, Europe, and other developed countries, among predominantly middle - class populations, provides strong evidence that human milk feeding decreases the incidence and / or severity of diarrhea,1 - 5 lower respiratory infection,6 - 9 otitis media,3,10 - 14bacteremia, 15,16 bacterial meningitis, 15,17 botulism, 18 urinary tract infection, 19 and necrotizing enterocolitis.20, 21 There are a number of studies that show a possible protective effect of human milk feeding against sudden infant death syndrome,22 - 24insulin - dependent diabetes mellitus,25 - 27 Crohn's disease, 28,29 ulcerative colitis, 29 lymphoma, 30,31 allergic diseases,32 - 34 and other chronic digestive diseases.35 - 37 Breastfeeding has also been related to possible enhancement of cognitive development.38, 39

The increased socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding observed in the intervention group supports the argument that population intervention strategies could inadvertently exacerbate, rather than mitigate, socioeconomic inequalities, particularly when the intervention aims to change individual behaviours rather than targeting «upstream» structural changes.25 Our results are also compatible with an observational study from Brazil reporting that breastfeeding rates increased first among the socioeconomically better - off, followed by increases among the poor, over a 20 - year period of active breastfeeding promotion campaigns in Brazil.26

This cross-sectional study was to assess the relationship between RA, breastfeeding, and also use of oral contraceptives, in a population of older women from South China, where cultural habits differ from those in the West, where most previous studies were conducted.

More recent studies have also demonstrated a protective effect of breast - feeding, but this is again mainly in populations with a high risk of developing atopic disease.

Findings from this study also may not be generalizable to other sociodemographic groups or populations with less social and educational support for breastfeeding.

So instead we've also done some individual plate waste studies, but [for practical reasons] we do it on only a sub-sample of the population.

The prone or side sleep position can increase the risk of rebreathing expired gases, resulting in hypercapnia and hypoxia.54, — , 57 The prone position also increases the risk of overheating by decreasing the rate of heat loss and increasing body temperature compared with infants sleeping supine.58, 59 Recent evidence suggests that prone sleeping alters the autonomic control of the infant cardiovascular system during sleep, particularly at 2 to 3 months of age, 60 and can result in decreased cerebral oxygenation.61 The prone position places infants at high risk of SIDS (odds ratio [OR]: 2.3 — 13.1).62, — , 66 However, recent studies have demonstrated that the SIDS risks associated with side and prone position are similar in magnitude (OR: 2.0 and 2.6, respectively) 63 and that the population - attributable risk reported for side sleep position is higher than that for prone position.65, 67 Furthermore, the risk of SIDS is exceptionally high for infants who are placed on their side and found on their stomach (OR: 8.7).63 The side sleep position is inherently unstable, and the probability of an infant rolling to the prone position from the side sleep position is significantly greater than rolling prone from the back.65, 68 Infants who are unaccustomed to the prone position and are placed prone for sleep are also at greater risk than those usually placed prone (adjusted OR: 8.7 — 45.4).63, 69,70 Therefore, it is critically important that every caregiver use the supine sleep position for every sleep period.

Caution is also needed in the interpretation of this finding as there is inconsistent reporting due to variations in the timing of outcome assessments, and the settings of studies and the population groups included in studies with more face - to - face visits.

He also suggested the state evaluate the medical marijuana program and said that Cuomo will likely have to take the study through «baby steps,» so he does not alienate his entire voting population.

Supporters also claim the city - sponsored study examines the wrong population of projects — it includes an as - of - right subsidy for industrial and commercial properties the bill is not meant to capture.

Ms. Mark - Viverito, also a Democrat, said in her speech that the Council would create an independent commission, led by the state's former chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, to study the criminal justice system with an eye toward shrinking the jail population so that closing the Rikers complex could be a reality.

Previous studies linking neonicotinoids to sharp declines in honeybee populations, known as colony collapse disorder, prompted the European Union in 2013 to pass a two - year ban on the use of the pesticides, though bee experts now believe a parasitic mite, poor nutrition or both may also weaken or kill the insects.

He is also studying CIB2 among the general population.

He and Krause also think that Willerslev's study needs to be confirmed with higher resolution sequencing to rule out contamination, and to have more population genetics modeling explain the distribution of these genetic types.

«This study offers new insight on the problem of multiple stellar populations in star clusters,» said study lead author Chengyuan Li, an astronomer at KIAA and NAOC who also is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences» Purple Mountain Observatory.

«Recent studies found that scale insect populations increase on oak and maple trees in warmer urban areas, which raises the possibility that these pests may also increase with global warming,» says Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, a research associate at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

All non-Africans stem from one major founding population, the studies agree, but earlier human migrations are also recorded in present - day people's DNA, one study finds.

In addition to exploring the specific functions of genetic material that the Turkish population inherited from Neanderthals, the study also examined the Neanderthals» influence on human populations in Western Asia more broadly.

The study, published online in the peer - reviewed Journal of General Internal Medicine, also found no difference in completion of the form by race or ethnicity, suggesting wide acceptance of these orders among California's highly diverse population.

The study also suggested that about 4 percent of local populations have already gone extinct since 1975.

«I think it's a stretch to suggest more generally that tropical animal populations may be capable of rapid adaptation to anthropogenic warming,» said Mahler, who is also co-chairman of the Anoline Lizard Specialist Group, which studies which anole lizard species are at risk of extinction at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

«Social media data have been suggested as a way to track the spread of a disease in a population, but there is a problem that in an emerging outbreak people also use social media to express concern about the situation,» explains study team leader Sherry Towers of ASU's Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center.

The study publishing January 9 in the open access journal PLOS Biology led by researchers from Uppsala University with an international team of collaborators, also indicates that the resulting mixed population genetically adapted to the extreme environmental conditions.

The TOPCAT trial also presented the opportunity to study cardiac structure and function in this population through an echocardiography sub-study in 935 patients, which demonstrated a high prevalence of abnormal cardiac structure in these patients.

Many of these animals are fierce predators that sit atop the food web, but Laidre's team found that they are also important subsistence resources: Arctic people hunt nearly 80 % of the studied populations for food and other uses.

The same study also had good news for the whole population: Cow's milk with or without fat promotes absorption of the natural form of vitamin E found in foods.

The Sydney Harbour is renowned as a beautiful landmark straddling our thriving city but a new study has shown it is also a source of significant carbon emissions, which requires careful management as the city is poised to double its population by the end of the century.

Eighty percent of a population of Burmese long - tailed macaques on an island in southern Thailand use stone and shell tools to crack open seafood, and do so using 17 different action patterns, according to a study published May 13, 2015 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Amanda Tan from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and colleagues, under an 8 year field project led by Michael D Gumert, also from NTU.

Nadeau also studies the potential impacts of climate change on species around the globe, using modeling, field observation and experiments to predict where species are most vulnerable and determine how conservation groups can best mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on animal populations.

This allows us to reveal how drugs affect heart functions in a scenario where the two cell populations are closely coupled,» said Ben Maoz, Ph.D., a co-first author on the second study, who also is a Technology Development Fellow at the Wyss Institute and a member of Parker's group.

Dunbar noted that the population study findings probably have lain to rest a lingering concern about targeting ANGPTL3, namely its effect in lowering not just LDL and triglycerides but also the so - called «good cholesterol,» known as HDL cholesterol.

To make the predictions as precise as possible takes understanding the ecology not just of the place being studied, but also of the disease and the human population.

The participants were asked to estimate the distribution of annual household income for their social contacts and also for the entire US population — in one study, they estimated what percentage of people fell into each one of 11 income bands; in the other study, they estimated the average income of people within each income quintile.

Also, the VA patient population was almost all male, and tended to have more chronic disease than the groups looked at in other studies.

«Studying these specimens and comparing them with modern - day animals also helps to pinpoint existing populations that have retained some of the past genetic diversity, much of which has been lost to industrialized breeding.

So I clicked on it: «Because genetic association studies are generally performed in populations of a particular ethnic background [European, Asian, African], we can not know whether the associations will also apply to those of a mixed background.

There's also a more recent foray into the study of complex biological systems, from the population - wide dynamics of a disease outbreak to the way human bodies align their functions to a biological clock.

The study also shows that dispersing males connect the enigmatic brown bear population of the Alaskan ABC - islands to the North American mainland, and that the resulting movement of genes is substantial enough to maintain high genetic variability within this island population.

So the study has not only made it possible to confirm the Eurasian origin of the U6 lineage but also to support the hypothesis that some populations embarked on a back - migration to Africa from Eurasia at the start of the Upper Palaeolithic, about 40 - 45,000 years ago.