Sentences with phrase «as a comparison group»

«Fathers at Work», a more recent multli - site US demonstration project which, like previous programmes, combined work around fathering with training / employment support reports participants earning $ 11,025 per year at follow - up (about twice as much as a comparison group and on average $ 4,602 more than before entering the programme).

This rate is similar to the National Birth Center Study and to the low - risk hospital births used as a comparison group in the same study of 1.3 / 1,000 (0.7 / 1,000 excluding anomalies).

Values were derived from regressing T on daily paternal caregiving, controlling for time of saliva collection, usual wake time (AM), sleep quality, psychosocial stress, and number of children, with fathers who reported no involvement in childcare as the comparison group.

Values are adjusted for time of saliva collection and usual wake time (AM) and are derived from regressing the change in T on fatherhood, stratified by child age, with men who were not fathers in 2005 and 2009 as the comparison group, and controlling for sleep quality and psychosocial stress (Tables S5 and S6).

Across two different cohorts of students in a college statistics class, the researchers randomly assigned half the student participants to receive the intervention prompt; the other half received no prompt, serving as the comparison group.

As a comparison group, they injected saline (saltwater) in the same brain area of other mice.

Acetaminophen use was quantified in two ways: High use vs. no use analysis used women who did not report any use as the comparison group.

The babies that received antibiotics only in the first few days of life served as a comparison group to the babies that received antibiotics early plus subsequent treatments later.

In addition, a small subset of normal tissues will be collected from living surgery patients as a comparison group.

As a comparison group, they retrieved pediatric nasal airway epithelial cultures from a study that looked at genomic DNA methylation patterns and gene expression in 36 children with persistent atopic asthma compared with 36 heathy children.

First, it allows the analysis to include students who are ineligible for the Promise because they entered after 9th grade and can therefore serve as a comparison group for eligible students.

Academic data was collected on approximately 900 participants of the program in 2007 as well as a comparison group comprised of approximately 700 DPS students who did not attend the program and were of similar academic proficiency, grade level, gender, race / ethnicity and free and reduced lunch status.

One foundation stage class (ages 4 - 5) has been selected to do the programme in each school (the parallel foundation stage classes in one school will act as a comparison group and will be offered the programme the following year).

Three other Colorado counties (Adams, Jefferson, and Appaloosa) are being used as a comparison group.

MIT using bibliotherapy was chosen as a comparison group because: (a) it seemed inappropriate to withhold treatment by assigning children to wait - list groups when the efficacy of moderately intensive parent training is well - established; (b) comparisons to alternative treatments provide stronger tests of treatment efficacy than do comparisons to untreated controls; and (c) WLC cause problems in assessing outcomes because WLCs generate a disproportionate number of dropouts that are difficult to address in «completer» analyses (Werba et al., 2006).

Not exact matches

Continuing with the dog food example, we can see that ratings, comparison, and reviews all were all grouped as closely related to dog food in general, implying that people that are searching for dog food are very interested in the comparison and review side of things.

As a point of comparison, the researchers also included a group of participants who had posters randomly assigned to them.

The GS team concludes that the labor market in particular has outperformed their historical comparison groups, as shown through the unemployment rate comparison below.

Netflix appears to finally be justifying its frequent comparison to tech monopolies like Facebook, Amazon and Google, which are often collectively grouped together as «FANG,» the same way modern monopolies like Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are known as «BAT» in China.

The connected customer is the stranger you must get to know as in comparison to the customers of the past, this group is only growing and it's traversing demographics.

By way of comparison, industry giant Blackstone Group has $ 266 billion of AUM, Carlyle Group has $ 185 billion of AUM, and KKR has $ 94 billion of AUM as of Dec. 31, 2013.

Coworking also «wins hands down» in terms of budget and ease of management for FinTechs, according to Ian Wright, founder at merchant comparison site Merchant Machine, who said: «The added benefits to FinTechs are that many of your potential customers may also work in the same building / coworking group as you.»

Generally defined as «dominating, restraining, or controlling another forcibly,» coercion involves interference with freedom, where «interference» means that the freedom in question is lessened in comparison with what it would have been had the interfering individual or group not acted at all, and this broad designation leaves open to dispute what kinds of interference are immoral.

The problem for Jonah (and, certainly as understood in the biblical faith, the problem for all men) is the abandonment of the cherished hatreds, the nurtured antipathies, the cultivated distastes, the snide comparisons by which persons and groups and classes and nations maintain their own flattering images, their own sense of superiority and exclusiveness.

For example, one of the Gallup surveys mentioned earlier showed that 60 percent of the American public personally considered prayer to be very important and another 22 percent regarded it as fairly important; by comparison, only 39 percent thought that reading the Bible is very important, 38 percent thought that attending religious services is very important, and 28 percent thought that being part of a close religious fellowship group is very important.

Comparisons between different SES groups and ability to interpret the front - of - pack labels were also conducted as an additional exploratory analysis.

Direct comparison of certain food groups such as vegetables may not be possible, due to changes in how Australians consume those foods.

Today, as adults, they earn an average of 25 percent more per year than the subjects whose parents didn't receive home visits; by a variety of measures, including wages, these formerly delayed infants have now caught up with a comparison group of their peers who didn't show any signs of delay in infancy.

So, actually completing an RCT study might well be off the table, leaving equivalent comparison group methodology as the best available.

Though Tranter often praises today's park district in comparison to Kelly's, park officials tend to view Tranter and her group as relentless critics who fail to appreciate the progress parks have made during the last two decades.

Research demonstrates that NFP and PAT also have negative effects, such as program families having fewer appropriate play materials in the home than the comparison group families, using harsher discipline techniques and being less accepting of the child's behaviour.

However, because midwives offer eligible clients the choice of home or hospital births, subjects in this comparison group lived in the same hospital catchment areas as those in the home birth group because the same midwives attended both groups.

But you can't create a comparison group with a similar proportion of Amish & Mennonite folks as the MANA Stats sample in order to make it a fair comparison when leaving them all in.

Subjects were selected for this comparison group if the baby was delivered in hospital and «midwife» was indicated on the hospital record as any type of caregiver.

In order to avoid «double counting» in studies involving one control group and two different interventions groups, we split the control group number of events and participants in half, so that we could include two independent comparisons, as per methods described the Handbook [section16.5.4].

However, the results of more recent phylogenetic analyses, derived from comparisons between sequences of specific genes and of whole genomes, seemed to point to Ctenophora as the first group that parted company with the lineage from which the rest of the animal kingdom (including sponges) evolved.

Schools were matched and paired for analysis, with one school teaching the curriculum and the other school not teaching it, to serve as a control group for comparison.

Promising results from the new trial would be a major step forward for a field that has long been criticized for studies that are poorly designed, incomplete or lack control - group comparisons, as well as for the peddling of unproved therapies in many clinics worldwide.

Comparison of facial function scores between groups demonstrated statistically worse outcomes for those who received corticosteroids as part of their initial treatment.

«Persistent VPC asthma was defined as having VPC asthma at both TENOR I and TENOR II enrollment visits; the comparison group had well or not well - controlled asthma at either visit,» said lead investigator Tmirah Haselkorn, PhD, of EpiMetrix in Los Altos, California.

In some cases, such as in the selection of participants for studies on suicide, the bias in the original studies may have underestimated the association between access to firearms and suicide, because both study and comparison groups were recruited from health care settings where they may have been seeking treatment for suicidal planning.

An additional comparison of this study group with adults with anorexia nervosa and a healthy control group supported greater orbitofrontal cortex and insula volumes in the disorder across this age group as well.

The most important thing, that is, the competition of universities for students, was missing as a criterion in a questionnaire which a group of German experts developed in the 1980s to measure the quality of universities in international comparison.

«We can use a group of children who do not play video games as a control group, in order to make a comparison.

The authors then combined the new genomes with thousands of publicly available genomes that represent the major groups of plant - associated bacteria, and included bacteria from multiple plant and non-plant environments, such as the human gut, for comparison.

The factors that may differ between the groups, such as older age, obesity, smoking and diabetes, are known and can be controlled for, providing for comparison groups that may provide more information on the impact of heart failure on subsequent cancer occurrence than other heart disease groups.

A group from the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) evaluated the live imaging system as a potential alternative to traditional methods of assessing investigative influenza vaccines and treatment in mice, which can be time consuming and require more study animals for valid statistical comparison.

Stern noted that the findings also should be viewed with caution, as there was no comparison group of former athletes without CTE in the study.

The comparison monkeys, which ate as much as they wanted, had an increased risk of disease 2.9 times that of the calorie - restricted group, and a threefold increased risk of death.

A comparison group of 210 siblings without cancer also responded to the survey and were used as a control for the study.