Sentences with phrase «as a targeted intervention»

AFT and CAP pitch their proposal as targeting interventions to schools with large achievement gaps.

This analytical document focuses on developing countries, as targeted interventions in the agriculture sectors have the potential to deliver adaptation and mitigation benefits, as well as economic, environmental and social cobenefits — often simultaneously.

The home visitation programme evaluated in these trials was applied as a targeted intervention for disadvantaged families.

Not exact matches

This boom in real estate prices, the rise in CPI inflation, as well as the desire of our monetary authorities to achieve price stability and impose inflation targeting, eventually led to the brisk intervention of the Bank of Canada.

«Over the past several months, the government has abandoned most of its concerns regarding the moral hazard of intervention as it has transitioned from targeted to broad - based easing,» says Dinsmore.

The group noted some of its most notable interventions in the last year, this included ensuring responsible alcohol ad targeting, as well as gambling and junk food restrictions.

As of March, Uber was struggling to meet its target of 13 miles per «intervention» in Arizona, according to 100 pages of company documents obtained by The New York Times and two people familiar with the company's operations in the Phoenix area but not permitted to speak publicly about it.

But if such reshaping of national fertility patterns is to be set in motion by government action, there would obviously have to be direct, far - reaching, and even forcible state interventions into the daily lives of the overwhelming majority of the citizens of these two countries — as well as others with similar «targets.»

Known in the community as the «Hip Hop Doc,» Williams is a highly regarded NIH researcher and expert in community - based health education interventions targeting economically disadvantaged minority communities.

Depending on the specific behavior we need to target, therapists will begin an intervention plan by determining what the goal will be, as well as the reasons why the desired behavior might be a challenge for the child.

Therefor, if crying can be regarded as a meaningful «target behaviour» for intervention with depressed mothers, research needs to address how to identify it (cry), what aspect of its character is meaningful (to the mother and clinician), who should be the target of the intervention (mother and / or infant) and whether the crying infant or the mother's processing of the signal matters (i.e., mother vs. infant).

While these reported interventions target the infant, other interventions target the mother - infant interaction48 or the whole family (rather just the mother) 49,50 to improve parental skills by providing practical parental care techniques (such as sleeping habits and feeding) in combination with psychoeducation about the postpartum period and mindfulness techniques.48 This set of studies have shown positive results such that maternal depression, anxiety scores48 and baby crying times, 48,50 were reduced.

Together, these findings may suggest that we might target crying behaviour for interventions that alter both infant behaviour and maternal perception of their infant's behaviour as ways to improve maternal sensitivity and infant developmental outcomes.

In support of this model, multiple studies have shown the association between infant negative reactivity and later psychosocial outcomes such as problem behaviour and self - regulation to be moderated by parental behaviour, so that highly reactive children fare better than others when they experience optimal parenting but worse than others when they experience negative parenting.41 - 46 Further support is found in studies indicating that interventions targeting parental attitudes and / or behaviours are particularly effective for children with a history of negative reactive temperament.47, 49

Therefore, an indirect link would be noted between interventions for which systematic review (s) report BMI as an outcome, and the global overweight and obesity targets.

The effects of breastfeeding on children's development have important implications for both public - health policies and for the design of targeted early intervention strategies to improve the developmental outcomes of children at risk as a result of biological (e.g., prematurity) or social adversity (e.g., poverty).

He argued that the lack of data on households with the current system makes social intervention programmes targeted at the vulnerable difficulty since there is no data as to who is poor and in which community.

«The most exciting result is the discovery of PGC1 - alpha as potential new target of therapy for early intervention Scherzer,» says.

In fact, fibrillarin's function appears to be similar across the entire paramyxovirus family, which includes measles and mumps, so perhaps understanding fibrillarin as a target for intervention and designing the right treatment for it could work against a broad range of viruses.

In the end, the identification of microbial species or metabolites that are altered in Parkinson's disease may serve as disease biomarkers or even drug targets, and interventions that correct microbial imbalances may provide safe and effective treatments to slow or halt the progression of often debilitating motor symptoms.

It is only a matter of time before we can therapeutically target this system as a preventative or curative intervention.»

The gene expression similarities between this common condition and the current findings in late - stage RP suggest that the canine RP models could serve as stand - ins to evaluate the effectiveness of pharmaceutical interventions that target innate immunity pathways in AMD

The current standard of care, beyond the use of fluoride as a preventive approach, is to target only the bacteria with antimicrobials, or to use surgical interventions if the tooth decay has become too severe.

Clinical providers might miss an important target for intervention when not considering OH as a contributor to cognitive impairment.

«Shedding light on trends in the burden of stroke among Medicare beneficiaries may provide important information for policy purposes, including describing the past and current scope of the condition, assessing the potential effect of stroke prevention interventions on a national level, and identifying areas where resources can be targeted more specifically and effectively,» says lead investigator Margaret C. Fang, MD, MPH, an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, who also serves as the Medical Director of the UCSF Anticoagulation Clinic.

Dr Joyce added «the findings may be used as a basis for the future selection of probiotics or dietary interventions which target this mechanism to regulate weight gain or high cholesterol.

«Even though tobacco shops have rarely been targeted by the police or community for intervention,» he added, «based on our data, we believe tobacco shops in urban communities of color should be regulated to improve community health in the same way as alcohol outlets and other public nuisances.»

Provide both general and targeted interventions as needed to support child health, development and positive family adaption

Currently, weight loss is regarded as the most effective way to prevent the progression of diabetes in patients with prediabetes but researchers examined whether a targeted dietary intervention could have additional impact for patients alongside a weight loss programme.

The identification of this and other risk factors (such as lower levels of cognitive stimulation and a higher body mass index) may help us to target individuals for screening, intervention and possible treatment.

This led McNulty and colleagues to hypothesize that an intervention focused on changing someone's thoughts about their spouse, as opposed to one that targets their behaviors, might improve relationship quality.

Now that we know what is going wrong with their decision making, we can look at developing treatments, for example using psychotherapy focused on forward planning or interventions such as medication which target the shift towards habitual choices.»

Nutrition interventions targeting energy density as well as other diet - related cancer preventive approaches are warranted to reduce cancer burden among postmenopausal women.

The researchers examined the overall effectiveness of school - based mental health services, as well as the relative effectiveness of various school - based intervention models that differed according to treatment target, format, and intensity.

There is no easy answer in our ongoing battle against obesity, but identifying the link between the drop in physical activity and increased BMIs, as well as the groups particularly affected, can assist public health officials to develop targeted, effective interventions.

New research published today in Disease Models & Mechanisms indicates that early intervention should be a key target in the development of new therapeutics for Friedreich's ataxia, as current treatments may be administered too late to target the disease effectively.

«This study opens up a new avenue of studies for brain - based interventions,» he says, «such as targeting the dopamine system» to increase the placebo effect.

«While most pharmacologic treatment for depression target monoamine systems, such as serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine, this intervention targets the parasympathetic and gamma aminobutyric acid system and provides a new avenue for treatment.»

«This study points to the caudate nucleus as a likely target for clinical interventions to alleviate fatigue,» explained Dr. Wylie, who is associate director of Neuroscience Research and the Rocco Ortenzio Neuroimaging Center at Kessler Foundation.

Such imaging could eventually help diagnose dyslexia in young children; even better, Eden hopes that by studying subtle brain differences as children with and without dyslexia learn to read, fMRI could eventually help teachers target reading interventions.

As temperatures rise due to global warming, she believes that study findings present health care professionals with an opportunity for targeted interventions and policy makers with the need to develop mitigation strategies to protect those most vulnerable to heat.

The traditional approach, in which researchers studied the clinical outcomes of an intervention without assessing whether the intervention altered a well - defined target, established current, well - accepted treatments such as exposure therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.

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Ladd - Acosta's research is focused on integrating genome - wide genotyping, genome - scale epigenetic and prenatal environmental exposure data, at a population level, to understand how these factors influence autism risk and to identify biologic pathways that could serve as molecular targets for prevention and intervention efforts.

Our findings show how the tumor microenvironment drives the acquisition of CD39 as an immune regulatory molecule on CD8 + T cells, with implications for defining a biomarker of T cell dysfunction and a target for immunotherapeutic intervention.

Nevertheless, based on our findings stratified by population groups, for interventions targeting parents, those would be more effective when targeted at mothers, minority groups, and as early as possible in childhood.

Intestinal function is especially important as a determinant of fly aging and mortality, and many exploratory interventions target this organ.

«Gaining familiarity with the molecular players in a behavior — as this new tool promises — may someday lead to clinical interventions targeting dysfunctional brain states.»

Thinking of glaucoma as a retinal degenerative disease, and looking at the pathways of these other cells and how they may contribute, gives us a broadened target for intervention.

Targeting MYC as a Therapeutic Intervention for Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer JCEM March 28, 2017 Keisuke Enomoto, Xuguang Zhu, Sunmi Park, Li Zhao, Yuelin J. Zhu, Mark C. Willingham, Jun Qi, John A. Copland, Paul Meltzer, and Sheue - yann Cheng Anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) is one of the most aggressive cancers in humans.