Sentences with phrase «area during the study period»

The study data were taken from the St Mary's Maternity Information System (SMMIS), a computerised records system which was used by most of the hospitals within the former North West Thames Regional Health Authority (RHA) area during the study period.

Not exact matches

During a period of study as the Area Coordinator for South America of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), I decided to write about Latin American Pentecostalism for readers in the United States.
One caveat to the study is that because helicopter transports brought a greater number of patients to Cleveland Clinic from surrounding rural areas during the course of the study period, it is possible that the observed trends reflect changes in the hospital's patient population.
We also show a doubling (108.1 % increase) of global burnable area affected by long fire weather seasons (> 1.0 σ above the historical mean) and an increased global frequency of long fire weather seasons across 62.4 million km2 (53.4 %) during the second half of the study period.
In the present study, we characterized the GAS strains isolated from pediatric OSAS patients in comparison with a panel of age and sex matched GAS strains unrelated to OSAS, but isolated in the same area and during the same period ranging from 2009 to 2013.
We exclude from the analysis schools, mostly in rural areas, with addresses we were unable to map and schools with missing test performance measures for any year during our study period, which spans 1996 — 97 to 1999 — 2000.
On average during our study period, about 21 percent of schools in the 39 states with this information had NCLB - induced choice, with considerable variation across areas and over time.
We also show a doubling (108.1 % increase) of global burnable area affected by long fire weather seasons (> 1.0 σ above the historical mean) and an increased global frequency of long fire weather seasons across 62.4 million km2 (53.4 %) during the second half of the study period.
It found eight of the atolls and almost three - quarters of the islands grew during the study period, lifting Tuvalu's total land area by 2.9 percent, even though sea levels in the country rose at twice the global average.
Mankind has actually found an efficient way to combat desert and drought: Arid Areas Greening Because of Higher CO2 Levels «Researchers predicted foliage would increase by 5 to 10 percent given the 14 percent increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration during the study period.
The earlier period of powerful hurricane activity matched previous studies that found evidence of high hurricane activity during the same period in more southerly areas of the western North Atlantic Ocean basin — from the Caribbean to the Gulf Coast.
This week in the journal Nature, Csatho writes a «News and Views» analysis that comments on the latest research in this area: A new study in Nature by Kristian K. Kjeldsen, Niels J. Korsgaard, Kurt H. Kjær and colleagues, who used aerial photographs, remote - sensing observations and geological evidence to estimate the Greenland Ice Sheet's mass loss during three time periods since the start of the 20th century: 1900 - 83, 1983 to 2003 and 2003 - 10.
(B) Changes in NPP in recent decades that resulted from multiple environmental factors including climate, leaf area index (LAI), fraction of photosynthetically active radiation (fPAR), and CO2, and the relative contribution rate (%) of each factor during the study period.
(i) Fire - free sites are those sites without charcoal macrofossils beneath, in, and on the current organic horizon (corresponding to 10 % of the surface of the study area) and with stands composed of a dense cover (generally > 40 %) of black spruce trees and shrubs — i.e. sites free of fire disturbance during a long period, but of unknown duration, of the Holocene.
If you look at areas like Lake Victoria where there was a decrease, the Tanzanians during the study period deforested 27 + % of their forest acreage and burned it as firewood.
QUEEN»S PARK — During question period on April 4, NDP Algoma - Manitoulin MPP Michael Mantha demanded that Premier Kathleen Wynne take the health care of Northerners more seriously after a shocking new study shows people in Northern Ontario have nearly double the level of cardiovascular risk than people in the Greater Toronto Area.
The study shows that during the start - up period, when the PDS was building up its caseload, it had higher costs than other criminal defence providers in the same areas.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z